{"id":1530,"date":"2012-03-31T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2012-03-31T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T17:43:46","slug":"a-dose-of-thoroughly-useless-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/a-dose-of-thoroughly-useless-data\/","title":{"rendered":"A dose of thoroughly useless data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The east-west part of Chicago&#8217;s Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, aka &#8220;the Ike&#8221; or I-290, which turns into Congress Parkway in downtown, is about one mile north of the Monona\/Harrison-to-Linn\/Johnson county line. (About 41\u00b051&#8217;N.) In fact, if you add five to longitude numbers in downtown Chicago, you will find yourself in southern Tama County along County Road E69.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the Chicago metro area is in the latitudes between US 20 and I-80 in Iowa; US 20 dips southeast starting at Rockford to go into the city.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t particularly ground-breaking, but I was playing around with some numbers after I took the Jeopardy online test.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this weekend Google is offering &#8220;8-bit mode&#8221; for &#8220;quests&#8221; like on on Nintendo games. <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ll=41.889036,-87.628949&amp;spn=0.012108,0.015235&amp;t=8&amp;z=16\">These two characters<\/a> are hiding north of the Chicago Loop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The east-west part of Chicago&#8217;s Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, aka &#8220;the Ike&#8221; or I-290, which turns into Congress Parkway in downtown, is about one mile north of the Monona\/Harrison-to-Linn\/Johnson county line. (About 41\u00b051&#8217;N.) In fact, if you add five to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/a-dose-of-thoroughly-useless-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}